thermald command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

thermald: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: thermald: command not found

Solutions to thermald: command not found

How To Fix thermald: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu thermald is provided by thermald package.

thermald is:

Thermal Daemon is a Linux daemon for monitoring and controlling platform temperatures. Once the system temperature reaches a certain threshold, the Linux daemon activates various cooling methods to try to cool the system.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install thermald

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install thermald.

sudo apt -y install thermald

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install thermald

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix thermald command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.